Akaku Maui Community Media‘s youth program recently received a $5,000 grant from the Fred Baldwin Memorial Foundation. The funds will support the Akaku Youth Media Exchange, AYME, which is a workforce development program for certified graduates of Youth Broadband Education and Awareness Mentoring; YBEAM is a ‘mobile’ video journalism training for youth 12-19 years old. […]

Akaku Maui Community Media’s youth programs recently received $9,000 in funds from the County Office of Economic Development, SunEdison and the Andrew S. Colburn Foundation. The money supports Akaku’s Youth Broadband Education Awareness Mentoring (YBEAM) and Akaku Youth Media Exchange (AYME) programs. The Maui County Office of Economic Development granted $3,000 for the AYME program […]

Akaku Community Television’s Youth Broadband Education Awareness Mentoring program has been granted $5,000 from the Maui Economic Development Board’s Ke Alahele Education Fund “Building Pathways.” Akaku’s YBEAM program was initially developed with a grant from Zero Divide, a federal Broadband Technology Opportunity Program out of San Francisco. This new grant from MEDB will aid in […]

Alumni of Akaku Maui Community Television’s youth program will now have an opportunity to gain field production work in the real world. Graduates of Akaku’s Youth Broadband Education & Awareness Mentoring training certification (YBEAM) will have the opportunity to use their skills as participants in Akaku Youth Media Exchange (AYME), taking their training to the next […]

Everyone has a story to tell, and that includes Maui’s youth—or maybe, as those who know adolescents can attest to, especially Maui’s youth. Akaku’s Project YBEAM acknowledges this fact, and equips Maui’s young story tellers and producers with the 21st century media skills to discover and share these stories with the rest of the island. […]